ALCTS Past Presidents

Rosann Bazirjian, ALCTS President 2005-2006

ALCTS President’s Program

Information Overload and the Quality of Your Life: Can a New Environmental Movement Restore Balance?

The program will examine the accelerating pace of life and the amount of information we are expected to process.Dr. David Levywill develop the notion of information environmentalism as a response to the torrent of 24/7 media and information that is upsetting the balance of our lives. Coping strategies, including preservation of space and time for reading, contemplation, and reflection, will be discussed.

The speakers are: Dr. David Levy, Professor, University of Washington Information School; Rosann V. Bazirjian, University Librarian, the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and ALCTS President; Joyce Ogburn, Director of the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.